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Alan Newman

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Retired university professor.

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Pedestrian Tunnel.

Jarrow, England

Tyne Cyclist and Pedestrian Tunnels

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

'Conversation Piece'

South Shields, England

'Conversation Piece'

This sculpture made up of 22 bulbous bronze figures reminds locals of massive Weeble Woobles.

Inside the tunnel

Byker, England

Victoria Tunnel

This tunnel was an amazing feat of engineering and an economic success, but the coal mine which it served closed after only 18 years of the tunnel's use, but in WW2 the tunnel was converted to an air raid shelter

Roman helmets and shields  used for children's educational activities

Falkirk, Scotland

Callendar House and Park

An amazing house in a park in the middle of Falkirk

The Kelpies.

Grangemouth, Scotland

The Kelpies

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

Carron Works Clocktower

Carron, Scotland

Carron Works Clocktower

The remaining public face of the factory which made many of Britain's red letterboxes and iconic red telephone call boxes

Falkirk Wheel

Falkirk, Scotland

Falkirk Wheel

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

The two bombs fell on the Cathedral  during the civil war but did not explode.

Zaragoza, Spain

Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar

This amazing cathedral was built on the site of the first Marian shrine in Spain and is important to Spanish speakers the world over

Ground Station Zero

Matlock, England

Ground Station Zero

A WW2 communications centre for Churchill's secret army

Exterior of the French styled (to the right) and crenelated (to the left)  south block

Matlock, England

The former Smedley hydrotherapy spa hotel

The largest former spa hotel in Matlock allows the public to get a glimpse of its opulent past.

Partial remains  of Stanton shelter

Matlock, England

Bailey's Tump

A pile of earth left over from a water supply project was converted into an anti-aircraft installation during World War II.

The clocktower decorated with the Christmas Lights

Matlock, England

Hall Leys Park Clocktower

A remnant of the steepest street tramway in the world

Oxcroft Estate

Worksop, England

Oxcroft Estate

The legacy of a social experiment of the 1930s funded by Andrew Carnegie's Charity is a dispersed group of 40 houses of identical original design dotted across 400 acres of Derbyshire agricultural land

Hall Hill Troughs.

Eyam, England

Hall Hill Troughs

One of the U.K's earliest public water supplies is within the "plague village."

Old Pegasus Bridge just before being moved.

Ranville, France

Memorial Pegasus and Pegasus Bridge

Two versions of Pegasus Bridge remind us of the opening shots of D-day.

Vazon swing bridge- push or pull bar to open

Keadby, England

Keadby's Moveable Bridges

This small north Lincolnshire village is blessed with examples of three different types of moveable bridge

Glowing water pools in Can Marça Cave

Ibiza, Spain

Cueva de Can Marçà

Inside a former smuggler's cave, an artificial waterfall and light show.

Cave Houses of the Barrio Primiero de Mayo

San Miguel de Salinas, Spain

Cave Houses of the Barrio Primiero de Mayo

This town has two officially recognised troglodyte villages

2022

Orihuela, Spain

The Painted Dam of Orihuela (Azudes de Rio Segura)

Painting of this dam or weir seems to be a tradition

Calle Dr. Garcia Rogel street in Palmeral de Orihuela

Orihuela, Spain

Palmeral of Orihuela

The second largest palm grove in Europe was planted during Moorish times and has been largely unchanged since then.

Murales de San Isidro

Orihuela, Spain

Murales de San Isidro

A working-class suburb has become an open-air art museum dedicated to a local poet and hero of the Spanish Civil War.

Finca El Poblet

Petrer, Spain

Finca El Poblet

The last refuge of the Republican Government before the end of the Spanish Civil War

Entrance to the main air raid shelter.

el Fondó, Spain

El Fondó

The place where the Spanish 2nd Republic, essentially, came to an end

The Roman Walls of Ceasar Augusta

Zaragoza, Spain

The Roman Walls of Ceasar Augusta

Remains of the walls of the Roman city named for its founder

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